Improvement in portable shower-baths



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No. 208,720. Patented Oct. 8, 1878.

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DANIEL DESHON, OF BUGYRUS, OHIO, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF HIS RIGHT TOFREDERICK W. MADER.

IMPROVEMENT IN PORTABLE SHOWER-BATHS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 208,720, dated October8, 1878; application filed September 6, 1878.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it kn own that I, DANIEL DESHON, of Bucyrns, in the State of Ohio,have invented a new and Improved Portable Shower-Bath and I do herebydeclare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of thesame, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making part ofthis specification, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view of thebath, with a portion of the casing broken away to show the interior.Fig. 2 is a plan view with the oscillating platform removed. Fig. 3 is avertical cross-section. Fig. 4 is a sectional elevation of the pump.

The object of my invention is to provide a portable shower-bath in whichthe water can be reused or not, as the bather may desire and myinvention consists in a frame-work having a water-tank at the bottom,divided in three compartments by means of partitions, and havingcommunicating openings, there being located in the tank two smallforce-pumps, operated by means of a tilting platform, which force waterup into a perforated reservoir, from which it descends upon the bather.

In order that those skilled in the art may make and use my invention, Iwill proceed to describe the manner in which I have carried it out.

In the said drawings, A is a water-tight tank, divided into threecompartments by means of partitions a b. In the central compartment,B,are two force-pumps, c 0, connected with pipes (l d, which convey thewater to the central perforated reservoir D, from which it falls on thebather. The force-pumps have pistons, and the piston-rods e e arejournaled to pins 0 c at the ends of a tilting platform, E, which restson central supports f f, fastened to partitions a b. On this platform Ethe bather stands, and by throwing his weight alternately on one end andthen on the other the force-pumps are worked and the water pumped up.

At the bottom of the tank partitions a and I) are provided with openings0 0, which, when open, allow the water to flow freely from onecompartment to the other; but when closed by corks or otherwise allcommunication is cut ofi. W'hen the bather desires to reuse the water,the openings 0 o are left open, and the water flows freely fromcompartment to compartment. If it is desired not to reuse the water, theopenings 0 o are closed and the central compartment, B, is only filled,and as the water descends on the tilting platform two cleats, i 2',along each end of the platform, direct the water into the sidecompartments, where it remains. Around and over the valveseats of thepumps I fasten a wire-netting or other sieve, s, to keep out allobstructions from the cylinders.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is

1. The tilting platform E, provided with pins 6 e and cleats M, incombination with the water-tank A, pumps 0 c, pipes (1 cl, and reservoirD, all constructed and operated substantially as set forth.

2. The water-tank A, divided into compartments by means of partitions aI), provided with openings 0 0, in combination with the tilting platformE, provided with cleats t i, whereby the bather can reuse the water ornot, at will, substantially as set forth.

DANIEL DESHON.

Witnesses S. R. HARRIS, WM. TROUNSTINE.

